Liberalizing Contracts - Nineteenth Century Promises Through Literature, Law and History

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Anat Rosenberg is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) at the Radzyner Law School, The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel. She had been a visiting research fellow at Columbia Law School, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, and a visiting fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, the University of London. Her research brings together law, literature, sociology and cultural studies, to study the history of late modern capitalism. Klappentext Contract reached its highpoint as a conceptual tool in the Victorian era. As Victorians negotiated the balances of the sense of constraints and potential in this era of change, contracts assumed center-stage. Reading representations of promissory relations in canonic fiction against histories of contract law, this book reframes views of contract. Zusammenfassung Contract reached its highpoint as a conceptual tool in the Victorian era. As Victorians negotiated the balances of the sense of constraints and potential in this era of change, contracts assumed center-stage. Reading representations of promissory relations in canonic fiction against histories of contract law, this book reframes views of contract. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Contract’s Liberalism in Contracts Histories; Part I: From Status Foreword to Part I; 2.Credit and the Market: Vanity Fair and The Way We Live Now ; 3 . Contract and Abstraction(?): Agency in Ruth and Bleak House; 4 . Contract and Freedom(?): Constrained Existence in Middlemarch and The Mayor of Casterbridge; Part II: With Status Foreword to Part II; 5. Status-to-Contract Reassessed: The Victorian Promise of Marriage; 6. Liberal Anguish: Wuthering Heights and the Structures of Liberal Thought; Epilogue: History is Always in the Future

Product details

• Authors: Anat Rosenberg, Rosenberg Anat
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9781138923706
• ISBN: 978-1-138-92370-6
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: Discourses of Law
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; LAW / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LAW / Legal History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, LAW / Contracts, contract law, Legal History, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural history, Literature: history and criticism